Trillion-Dollar War: Afghanistan and Iraq Set to Cost More than Vietnam and Korea
October 24th, 2007Via: Independent:
President George Bush will have spent more than $1 trillion on military adventures by the time he leaves office at the end of next year, more than the entire amount spent on the Korean and Vietnam wars combined.
There are also disturbing signs that Mr Bush is preparing an attack on Iran during his remaining months in office. He has demanded $46bn (£22.5bn) emergency funds from Congress by Christmas and included with it a single sentence requesting money to upgrade the B-2 “stealth” bomber.
By wrapping his request in the flag of patriotism, the President has made it very difficult even for an anti-war Congress to refuse the money. He was accompanied by the family of a dead US marine when he made the request for funds on Monday.
More: $2.4 Trillion by 2017
Hunh. By my calcs that’s over $3.2K per person, including blastocysts. That’d buy a lotta health care. Icing on yer cake: socialized medicine is a bad thing, but socialized killing is OK.
– Jack-Booted EULA :o)